Please join us on this Friday May 9 for our monthly meeting.  Doors open at 7:00 pm and the meeting will begin as usual at 7:30 pm.

Our speaker this month is Thomas Deere. Tom holds a BA in Anthropology, BEd, specialists certification for teaching Iroquoian languages and Environmental Education.  He has a deep interest in researching the astronomical knowledge of the Hodinǫhshǫ́:ni, and for many years has been interviewing elders, and investigating anthropological native language texts to identify astronomical wisdom. With this traditional knowledge, he helped to develop a show for W. J. .J. McCallion Planetarium at McMaster University based on the Hodinǫhshǫ́:ni origin story of the Ursa Major (Big Dipper) constellation.  On Friday, Tom will be discussing the origin stories of the Big Dipper and the Pleiades constellations as well as well as the ceremonial calendar of the Six Nations’ people.

Observing Director Kevin Salwach will also be joining us to present the May edition of the Sky this Month.

Our meeting location is at St. Matthew’s-on-the-Plains Anglican Church at 126 Plains Road East, Burlington, Ontario, L7T 2C3.

We hope to see you there!

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